Sport in Chennai

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Cricket match between India Blue and India Red at the M. A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium, Chennai, India.

Chennai Open. Chennai has a rich legacy in chess and has produced many well-known chess players, the most notable of them being Viswanathan Anand, the former multiple World Chess Champion.[1]

Cricket

An IPL match in progress at M.A. Chidambaram Cricket Stadium

Cricket is the most popular sport in Chennai.

Chepauk Super Gillies, a popular Tamil Nadu Premier League
franchise.

Tennis

Chennai Open
- Centre Court at the SDAT Tennis Stadium complex in Nungambakkam

Chennai Open, from 1996 to 2017 at the SDAT Tennis Stadium in Nungambakkam. The stadium seats about 6,000 spectators and has five synthetic surface courts. The tournament was awarded the title of the best new event in its second year by the Association of Tennis Professionals. Indian tennis stars such as Ramanathan Krishnan, Vijay Amritraj, Ramesh Krishnan and Mahesh Bhupathi hail from Chennai.[5] Leander Paes
did his schooling and was trained in Chennai. One of India's top tennis training academies, the Britannia Amritraj Tennis Academy is based in Chennai.

Basketball

Chennai is home to Chennai Slam,[6] two-time national champion of India's top professional basketball division, the UBA Pro Basketball League.

Hockey

The

Premiere Hockey League team Chennai Veerans. Notable international players include Vasudevan Baskaran, Krishnamurthy Perumal, M. J. Gopalan and Mohammed Riaz
.

Squash

The Squash Rackets Federation of India (SRFI) is headquartered in Chennai. It has more than 20 State Associations and affiliated units. Dipika Pallikal, India's top ranked women's squash player hails from Chennai.

Racing

Motorsports

MMSC race track
AARC Championship racing

Chennai has a long-standing and thriving

Sholavaram
track for motorcycles. Races of the FISSME class, 1300 CC class and 1600 CC class are held regularly in Irungattukottai.

Horse racing

The Guindy Race Course for horse racing was set up in 1777.[12] The city also has a pigeon-racing culture that started in the 1970s and now has 11 clubs and 400 racing enthusiasts.[13]

Football

Football is a popular sport in schools. Football matches are played at

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium in Chennai. The Indian Super League team Chennaiyin FC, and former I-League winning club Chennai City FC are based in Chennai.[14][15] The city is also home of another football club Indian Bank RC,[16] that previously competed in the National Football League
.

On the 5th of February 2019, it was reported in both the Swiss and Indian newspapers that Chennai City FC (CCFC) are all set to sell 35 per cent of the club's stake to Swiss club FC Basel. The Swiss Champions League regulars will also invest 20m euros in CCFC. FC Basel will also have a player exchange program, including first team players, with CCFC and help the club with technical know how.[17][18]

Athletics and aquatics

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium

Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium, which seats 40,000. The complex also houses a multipurpose indoor stadium with a seating capacity of 8,000 which hosts various competitions including volleyball, basketball and table tennis. The Velachery Aquatic Complex seats 4,000 and hosts various water sports. Chennai was the venue of the SAF Games
in 1995.

Chess

Chess is a popular board game in the city. It has been called the "Mecca of Chess" in India, producing more grandmasters than any other city in India. Most popularly, Viswanathan Anand, the five-time world chess champion, is from Chennai. It is the hometown of prominent coaches Ramesh RB, five-time olympiad team captain, and Srinath Narayanan, three-time olympiad team captain (twice in online olympiad).

D Gukesh
.

Other national champions from Chennai are Aravindh Chithambaram, Karthikeyan Murali, S. P. Sethuraman, and G. Akash in the open section, and Aarthie Ramaswamy in the women's section.

Other

Chennai is home to popular

Sepak Takraw, players from Tamil Nadu
participate in four teams in this league. The Tamil Nadu men's team is one of the leading teams in India and many players from Tamil Nadu have represented India.

Chennai is home to a

Maria Irudayam and the present women's world champion Ilavazhagi are natives of Chennai.[19] There is also a growing enthusiasm in Parkour & Freerunning which is fueled by the "Chennai Parkour" and "Parkour Circle" groups. The Madras Boat Club
, founded in 1867, hosts rowing competitions.

The city has two 18-hole

Gymkhana Club golf course, both of which were established in the late 19th century. Private golf courses include the proposed one at Hirco Palace Gardens at Oragadam, a western suburb of Chennai, which features an architectural canopy to protect the golfers from sun and rain and a combination of Par 3,4 and 5 holes each with its unique combination of bunker, water and vegetation hazards. The 50-acre course stretches out to over 2,500 meters (an 18-hole equivalent of 5000 meters/5500 yards).[20] Chennai was the venue for the first Commonwealth Junior Fencing Championships
held in 2006.

Teams

Club Sport League Home Stadium Span
Chennai Superstarz Badminton Premier Badminton League
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2015–present
Chennai Superstars Cricket Indian Cricket League
M.A. Chidambaram Stadium
 2007–2009
Chennai Super Kings Cricket Indian Premier League
M.A. Chidambaram Stadium
 2008–2015,2018–present
Chepauk Super Gillies
 Cricket Tamil Nadu Premier League
M.A. Chidambaram Stadium
 2016–present
Chennai Strikers[21]
Cue Sports
 Indian Cue Masters League N/A 2017
Chennai Cheetahs Field hockey World Series Hockey Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium 2011–2012
Chennai Veerans Field hockey Premier Hockey League Mayor Radhakrishnan Stadium 2005–2008
Chennai City F.C.
 Football
I-league
 Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 2016–present
Chennaiyin FC Football Indian Super League Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium 2013–present
Tamil Thalaivas Kabaddi
Pro Kabaddi
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2017–present
V Chennai Warriors Tennis Champions Tennis League SDAT Tennis Stadium 2015
Chennai Lions Table tennis Ultimate Table Tennis
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2019–present
Chennai Spikers Volleyball Indian Volley League
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2011–2012
Chennai Spartans Volleyball Pro Volleyball League
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2019
Chennai Blitz Volleyball Prime Volleyball League
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2021–present
Chennai Quick Guns
Kho-kho
 Ultimate Kho Kho
Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium
 2022-present

Notes

  1. ^ "Chennai Sports". lifeinchennai.com. Retrieved 27 July 2009.
  2. ^ "Top 10 Most Popular Sports in India". Sporteology.com. Archived from the original on 22 June 2018. Retrieved 16 October 2013.
  3. ^ "MA Chidambaram stadium". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2007.The Chemplast Cricket Ground in the IIT Madras campus and SSN cricket ground are other important cricket venues, which hosts first class matches.
  4. ^ "IIT-Chemplast stadium". Cricinfo.com. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  5. International Management Group
    . Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  6. ^ UBA Pro Basketball League: Delhi Capitals, Chennai Slam set up final clash Indian Sports News, 31 March 2016. Accessed 5 May 2017.
  7. ^ "Radhakrishnan stadium to have new turf". The Hindu. Chennai, India. 20 October 2004. Archived from the original on 30 October 2004. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  8. ^ "Chennai Cheetahs". Archived from the original on 26 January 2013.
  9. ^ "Memories of Madras: From Sholavaram to Irungattukottai". The Hindu. India. 11 October 2011.
  10. ^ "MRF Sports".
  11. ^ "MRF Limited". NDTV. 14 February 2015.
  12. ^ "Racing in India". International Racehorse Owners Association. Retrieved 13 September 2007.
  13. ^ Frederick, Prince (14 October 2012). "The new pigeon-racing capital". The Hindu. Chennai. Retrieved 14 October 2012.
  14. ^ Sudarshan, N. (5 October 2014). "Chennaiyin Football gets Italian seasoning". The Hindu. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
  15. ^ Sudharshan, M (3 March 2023). "Chennai City FC owners transfer sporting license". khelnow.com. Archived from the original on 3 March 2023. Retrieved 3 March 2023.
  16. Times of India. Archived
    from the original on 16 May 2022. Retrieved 18 February 2021.
  17. ^ "Federer's home club Basel to invest 20m euros in CCFC". The Times of India. Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  18. ^ "Der FCB und sein Bollywood-Farmteam – Basel steigt bei Chennai City ein". watson.ch (in German). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
  19. ^ Ilavazhagi, a Chennai girl is World carrom champion
  20. ^ "Take a swing at Hirco Palace Gardens golf range". The Business Line. Chennai: The Hindu. 12 October 2012. Retrieved 12 October 2012.
  21. ^ "Chennai Strikers, Hyderabad Hustlers win in Indian Cue Masters League". hindustantimes. 20 August 2017. Retrieved 26 August 2017.

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